Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II / edited by Denis Paperno, Edward L. Keenan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paperno, Denis, Editor.

Keenan, Edward L., Editor.

Series:

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 0924-4662 ; 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Philosophy of Language.

Syntax.

Local Subjects:

Semantics.

Philosophy of Language.

Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,010 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Summary:

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. The current volume pays special attention to underrepresented languages of different status and endangerment level. Languages covered include American and Russian Sign Languages, and sixteen spoken languages from Africa, Australia, Papua, the Americas, and different parts of Asia. The articles respond to a questionnaire the editors constructed to enable detailed crosslinguistic comparison of numerous features. They offer comparable information on semantic classes of quantifiers (generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, partitive), syntactically complex quantifiers (intensive modification, Boolean compounds, exception phrases, etc.), and several more specific issues such as quantifier scope ambiguities, floating quantifiers, and binary (type 2) quantifiers. The book is intended for semanticists, logicians interested in quantification in natural language, and general linguists as articles are meant to be descriptive and theory independent. The book continues and expands the coverage of the Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language (2012) by the same editors, and extends the earlier work in Matthewson (2008), Gil et al. (2013) and Bach et al (1995).

Contents:

Introduction by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno

The Quantifier Questionnaire by Edward L. Keenan

Quantification in American Sign Language by Natasha Abner, Ronnie Wilbur

Quantification in Cantonese by Peppina Lee

Chicasaw Quantifiers by Pamela Munro

Quantifiers in Dan-Gwɛɛtaa (South Mande) by Valentin Vydrine

Quantification in Gitksan by Katie Bicevskis, Henry Davis, Lisa Matthewson

Quantification in Hindi by Anoop Mahajan

Quantification in Kusunda by Mark Donohue, Bhoj Raj Gautam

Quantification in Malayalam by Pilar Chamorro Fernandez and Lindsey Antonini

Quantification in Naxi by Paul Law and Qingliang Zhao

Quantification in Nen by Nick Evans

Quantification in Nungon by Hannah Sarvasy

Quantification in Persian by Maziar Toosarvandani and Hayedeh Nasser

Quantification in Q'anjob'al by Kathleen Chase O'Flynn

Quantification in Imbabura Quichua by Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Cansada Martin, Pamela Munro, and Jos Tellings

Quantifiers in Russian Sign Language by Vadim Kimmelman

Quantifiers in Turkish by Deniz Ozyıldız

Quantification in Kenyah Uma Baha by Deborah J.M. Wong and Iara Mantenuto

Quantification in Warlpiri by Margit Bowler

Overview by Edward L. Keenan, D. Paperno.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-319-44330-5